UCL Qatar

Student Enrolment

We are now accepting online applications to our Archaeology, Conservation and Museum Studies Master's programmes for entry on 30 August 2015. Our application deadline is 1 May 2015. Please follow the 'Apply Now' link below to submit an application.

The application process for our Library Studies and Diploma programmes is currently closed and will open in early 2015.

Short Courses

UCL Qatar offers short courses aimed at professionals working in the field of cultural heritage, who are looking to expand their knowledge, learn about new developments in their field, or understand other disciplines in their chosen field. Lecturers for the courses come from a wide range of international institutions around the world, including UCL.

Below is a list of Short Courses scheduled to be delivered by UCL Qatar during the period January - April 2015. Please continue to check the website regularly for updates as new programmes become available.

To request an application form for any of the courses below, or for further information, please contact the Short Courses Team.

This four
day training programme is designed to introduce participants to the principles
and practice of developing audiences for museums and galleries in a
participative and engaging way. As well as presentations on audience
development approaches, the course will include inspiring case-studies from
around the world, guest speakers and practice in a
museum-setting. Throughout the course participants will be encouraged to
apply their learning to case-studies selected from their own organisations.

Beyond The Logo: What is a cultural brand in the context of a museum? How does commerce ensure a museum’s
sustainability?

This 5-day programme will examine the role of commerce
in public art institutions and cultural brand management. By examining Annual
Reports, students will be able to discern an institution’s commercial strategy
and the return on that investment. Commercial strategies will also be examined
for cultural brand alignment.

Assessment of various local/regional cultural
commercial propositions at museums and cultural tourist attractions will be
evaluated for authenticity and effectiveness. Change scenarios will be proposed
and evaluated for viability across execution.

No prior financial qualifications or experience
required for this course, which is structured to enhance big-picture thinking
about museums as a staff member as well as a visitor.

This practical course will explore the needs of children and young
people with learning difficulties and identify strategies for increasing the
value and relevance of museums, libraries, archives and other cultural and
heritage organisations to them.

Expected learning outcomes

- increased
understanding of learning difficulties and their implications,

Caring for textiles demands an understanding of how and
why they deteriorate. This 5 day course will discuss structure of textiles,
possible causes of damage, correct handling, and appropriate storage methods. This practical knowledge will help to
look after and minimise serious reversible
damages of precious textiles in both private and museum collections and preserve them for future generations.

At the end of this course you will have:

- a
basic knowledge of the structure of textiles and the range of different types
of textiles,

- an
understanding of how textile materials degrade,

- practical
knowledge of how to handle and store textile objects- dos and don’ts,

- a
basic knowledge on the range of materials for safe storage of textile objects.

*Please bring one of your favourite textiles to discuss
problems and suggestions for its care.

In recent years, Open Access has been
steadily gaining steam as a viable option for disseminating knowledge. This
course will provide a hands-on introduction to Open Access and other types of
open knowledge within the context of cultural heritage institutions –
libraries, archives, and museums. By open knowledge, we are referring to
content that is free to access and re-use, disseminated via the internet in
standards-compliant repositories and using structured metadata. While our focus
will be on Open Access to research, we will briefly introduce other types of
open content such as open data.

The course will include hands-on activities
and exercises designed to give participants a feel for the types of issues
professionals who work with open knowledge face on a daily basis. Participants
will work in teams to plan and build small digital collections and will gain
first-hand experience working with commonly-used Open Access tools, systems,
and workflows.

Topics covered will include:

- current and emerging issues in scholarly communication and
publishing,

- overview of current and emerging issues in open knowledge:
linked data, open data and data management, library publishing efforts, Open
Educational Resources (OERs), open textbooks,

- standards-compliant repositories,

- working with Dublin Core metadata and controlled
vocabularies,

- Creative Commons and open licenses,

- Open Access publishing,

- altmetrics,

- working with researchers to support Open Access,

- examples of Open Access initiatives in the Gulf Region.

Learning
Objectives

Through
this course, participants will:

- Learn
about major issues, trends, and initiatives in the field of Open Access and
scholarly communication

- Understand the
two routes for achieving Open Access (repositories and journals) and the steps
involved in each route

- Engage
in strategic planning for development of an Open Access or other type of Open
Knowledge program

- Gain
hands-on experience with most steps in a typical Open Access workflow such as
depositing content and applying metadata to content

- Gain
hands-on experience working with widely-used Open Access tools: the Directory
of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), SHERPA RoMEO and Juliet databases, ROARMap

- Become
familiar with tools and issues related to supporting researchers, scientists,
and authors who are interested in disseminating their scholarship via Open
Access

- Consider
how Open Access and other new forms of digital scholarship are changing the
role of librarians

- Be
familiar with the standard set of services offered by many libraries around the
world to support Open Access

Please
note: the focus of the
session will be on providing open access to research outputs (articles and, to
a lesser extent, data) and born-digital information products. While most of the
knowledge shared during the session will be applicable to museum curators and
archivists, the emphasis will be on Open Access to scholarship. We will not cover museum
curation systems; digitizing techniques; or art, museum, and archival metadata
standards.

Aim of this course, is to
present to the participants the basic definitions of tourism and the tourism
industry as a whole, focusing to the special and alternatives forms of tourism
and more specifically to cultural tourism.

The course will be comprised
of 3 parts:

- In the 1st part, we will begin the
lectures, by presenting the definitions and meanings of tourism, the
basic elements of the tourism industry - tourists and touristic businesses,
categories of tourism as well as the effect that tourism may have as an
industry and activity to society and economy as a whole.

- In the 2nd part, we will examine
closely the special and alternative forms of tourism. We will begin our
discussion with the difference between these two categories and how they are
presented and operate in economy and society. Main priority and goal of this
part of the course, is to examine with the participants an analysis of the
characteristics of the special and alternative tourism market and to
investigate the businesses that are part of this very vibrant and diverse
touristic sector. Some examples of forms of tourism that may be discussed are:

Professional / City Tourism

Agricultural Tourism

Eco Tourism

Sea Tourism

Backpacker Tourism

Sport Tourism

Cultural Tourism

- The 3rd part of this course, will be
devoted to a closer examination of Cultural Tourism. We will examine the
identity of cultural tourism, types of tourists that usually follow this type
pf tourism activity, characteristics and effects on society and economy. Focus
will be given on implementation of cultural tourism in Qatar’s region and the
opportunities that Doha presents as a city, towards this special form of
tourism.

There are no perquisites for
this course. This course can be taken by anyone working or studying the tourism
sector, working or studying the cultural – museum sector, as well as anyone
with a specific interest on tourism and how tourism and culture can me combined
so as to promote traveling and the flow of knowledge.

This
short course is aimed at individuals that have an interest in the profession of
Art Therapy and those who are considering applying for accredited training.
This 5-day short course will include art therapy theories and case studies with
different client groups, as well as practical experiential activities using
art-materials. A short essay and test will be assigned to students to reflect
on their experience and grasp of Art Therapy towards the end of the course.

This five day training programme is
designed to teach participants to identify and assess disaster risks to their
museum building and collections due to various natural and human induced
hazards such as fire, storm, theft, vandalism etc. Accordingly, participants
will learn to undertake practical measures for mitigation, emergency
preparedness, response and recovery.

The course will include a field exercise
in a museum. During the short course, the participants will also prepare an
outline of disaster risk management plans for their own museums.

The course is aimed at museum curators,
conservators, administrators or security staff.

This course will have a large proportion
of practical work. Attendees must be familiar with hand tools and workshop
machinery. The practical work can be dusty and dirty, attendees should
wear appropriate clothing.

Attendees can bring some personal
objects to mount (books, plates, cups or other small objects).